Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corporation from Mr. Markle. Nonetheless, bushy-haired Justice Ferdinand Pecora returned a thumping judgment against Morris & friends for $443,202, including interest. Last week, Justice Pecora's judgment having been reversed on the first appeal, New York's Court of Appeals (last resort) polished it off for good. In an unanimous decision six of its judges set aside Justice Pecora's judgment, found nothing wrongful or improper in the deal...
...thoroughly familiar with the financing company, are more likely to be best for borrower and investor than those that come out of a fierce competition among a group of bidding underwriters. Competitive bidding, they hold, "tends to overpricing the issue . . . and to subsequent dissatisfaction and losi of credit and good will of the borrower...
...daylight. At a White House press conference, the President used a routine question about TVA as an opportunity to take newsmen up the mountain. He pointed out that "a company," obviously meaning Washington Water Power, in Grand Coulee and Bonneville territory had just sold an issue at "pretty good terms," thus inviting White House reporters to chalk one up for his contention that operating companies with good capital structures (a pat for Washington Water Power) whose "managers" indulge in no soapboxing (a pat for Groesbeck) can count on all the "investor confidence" they need...
Last week, Wall Street noted that power production for the week ending July 1 was 14% ahead of last year and slightly ahead of 1937, added this to Bond & Share-New Deal good-will and the chances of more SEC-holding company deals. Result: the Dow-Jones average of 15 utility stocks rose for eleven consecutive days, making the second quarter of 1939 look like a straight line advance for at least this group...
...them a map with orchid hotspots neatly indicated. In Bogota they fell in with 67-year-old J. B., "six feet three inches tall, lean and hard, definitely English." His hunches about orchid hiding places were nearly infallible. With this sort of luck and help the young men made good...